For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...

In mice, blood cell production occurs via strings and clusters of cells within the bone marrow that are responsible for producing specific blood cell types, according to a far-reaching study led by ...

Archaeologists in Hungary recently discovered the grave of a medieval woman buried with weapons, according to a new study. Drawing by Luca Kis, PLOS One In the 1980s, archaeologists unearthed a ...

New research was made about tobacco's effect on human skeletons, indicating that it leaves permanent marks on bones, even centuries after death. Scientists at Leicester University explored the ...

Forensic analysis of a 750-year-old skeleton has revealed that a Hungarian duke was brutally murdered by at least three assailants. Béla, Duke of Macsó, was stabbed more than two dozen times by ...